Operated NFT Metaverse "THE SANDBOX", procurement of 93 million dollars in Series B - SoftBank leads | Bridge (Bridge) Technology & Startup Information
The Sandbox has raised $ 93 million in the SoftBank's leading funding round, supporting the growth of the virtual world based on non -alternative tokens (NFT).
This indicates how hot the NFT is when the price of bitcoin is soaring, and the NFT game appears in novels such as "Snow Crash" and "Ready Player One".It is regarded as a foothold to Metabas, another buzzword that means the space of the virtual world that is all connected to each other.
今回調達した資金は、世界最大級の企業による推定300億米ドルのソフトバンク・ビジョン・ファンド2からのものだ。このラウンドには他に、Animoca Brands、True Global Ventures、Liberty City Ventures、Galaxy Interactive、Kingsway Capital、Blue Pool Capital、LG Technology Ventures、Alpaca VC、Graticule Asset Management Asia、Com2uS、GoldenTree Asset Management の役員、Nokota、Sun Hung Kai & Co、Sound Ventures、Red Beard Ventures、SCB 10X、Polygon Studios、Samsung Next、Double Down Partners、StakeFish、SterlingVC、HodlCo が出資している。
The Sandbox is the first investment of SoftBank Vision Fund 2, but SoftBank is a NFT fantasy soccer game maker -based NFT fantasy soccer game maker, and the SORARE with 30 employees is $ 680 million.Is investing.THE SANDBOX's CEO Arthur Madrid responded to interviews that the company will grow not only in games, but also in economic fields such as fashion, architecture, virtual concerts, art galleries, and museums.There is.Madrid and his co -founder SEBASTIEN BORGET said he wanted to build a metaverse.
The company's funding is human resources, the development of creative tools for players, the addition of multi -players, the expansion of intellectual property and brands, which are part of The Sandbox, the growth of user acquisition, and the construction of better infrastructure.I plan to use it for.
This year, NFT was a big year.Looking at Google Trends, it can be seen that in February, NFT began to rise, and his relevant NFT sales, such as digital art and NBA TOP SHOT, rose rapidly after riding on track.In Dapper Labs, these NFT sales and resale have exceeded $ 780 million.In March, his NFT's NFT's digital collage, a beeple artist, was awarded by Christies for US $ 69.3 million.It's a stupid story.In addition, with the popularity of NFT, serious problems have been revealed, such as scams that steal art and sell as his NFT.
By May, the NFT market crashed in Ethereum.Kotaku wrote that the NFT bubble had collapsed.However, it rose again in August and September, and once fell, it grew steadily.Although it fluctuates like Bitcoin's virtual currency trading, it is steadily rising.Dappradar, which is not only Ethereum but also a wider NFT market, has NFT sales in the first quarter of $ 1.2 billion, $ 1.3 billion in the second quarter, and Axie Infinity in the third quarter.He reported that he had reached the $ 10.7 billion.
Fans also believe that NFT is realized by NFT, such as a novel such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One, which appears in the virtual world.NFT can authenticate digital ownership, so you can bring assets and avatars purchased in a certain world to another world.
This investment is a major recognition of the strategy of the Sandbox founder Arthur Madrid and Sebastien Borget (Borget is online event "GamesBeat Summit Next" held on November 9-10.Speak).They started their business in 2011.I wrote about them in 2013, when they were running a company in Paris as pixowl.Borget showed me a game such as "DOODLE GRUB".This cute game was frustrated by Apple's representative that "the graphics are too rough."However, in 2012, he began to take tracks on the Sandbox.
THE SANDBOX is a block -shaped world where players can create new things by combining various elements, as well as games such as "Minecraft".After hearing the story of NFT, they began to recreate his new version of THE SANDBOX.And in 2018, they sold the company to Animoca for US $ 48.75 million in cash and stocks.Currently, the company has more than 200 employees.
The Sandbox has been downloaded 40 million times.Animoca Brands (this year has raised $ 230 million so far) has many subsidiaries specializing in blockchain, such as The Sandbox, BlowFish Studios, QUIDD, GAMEE, NWAY, PIXOWL, Bondly, and Lympo.In this financing, the Sandbox has raised the department.
The unique point of The Sandbox is that it's not just a gallery.It is not a game gallery, but a virtual world laidout that can be searched using 3D avatars.A certain number of lands are available, and about two -thirds of land have been sold.
If you walk to the border of one land, you can enter the adjacent land.As a result, the location of the game experience is very similar to real estate in the real world.Who is your position and who your neighbors is almost as important as the quality of entertainment experiences.
In an interview with GamesBeat, Borget states that the "Web3" that enables blockchain technology such as NFT by this financing is the next clear trend for computing and the future of the Internet.There is.
More than 30,000 artists sell items.Players buy and sell many virtual products for the virtual currency "SAND".Currently, hundreds of players are constantly streaming their activities, and the number of views and engagement per stream is increasing.
With the new version of THE SANDBOX, brands have begun to sell virtual real estate as NFT -based digital ownership, and brands have gathered one after another.Brands, celebrities, and game companies such as "The Walking Dead", "SNOOP DOGG", and "ATARI" have purchased a part of virtual land, and The Sandbox sold those lands in total for more than $ 144 million.。The game has more than 12,000 virtual land owners, including 165 brands, and more than 500,000 wallets.
The Sandbox will accelerate the development of open meta spring under the new name, support more creators, and involve more brands and intellectual property.
The Sandbox players can use the Play-to-Earn model to monetize the time spent in the metaverse.Play-to-earn has a recycling-type economy of demand and supply, by buying and selling resources collected by players in a category by players and creators in another category.Realize.
The Sandbox creator economy is growing rapidly, creating new categories of digital jobs, including NFT creators, virtual architects, and game makers.The Sandbox vision, which uses players as creators and promotes the economy owned by players, is not limited to games, but also spreads to fashion, architecture, virtual concerts, virtual shows, art galleries, museums, etc.The chance is developing.
According to SoftBank Investment Advisors investor Aaron Wong:
The Sandbox has a new advisor.Producer Thomas Vu and FRESHPLANET co -founder and SongPop creator Mathieu Nouzareth.
A landowner is participating.
Wedbush Securities has served as an exclusive Placement Agent and Financial Advisor of The Sandbox, and Rubicon Law has been a legal advisor to The Sandbox.
[Via VentureBeat] @Venturebeat
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